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This is an excellent example of what I'm talking about. In the definition for Dorcas, Mantis places her status as Severian's grandmother in the commentary...a location that, in t…
10 Jul 2010, 00:00
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No. You misread part of that. I did not call it a half-baked theory. I said this: If it was explained in terms at all before the late 90s, I'm unaware of it. It's not an issue o…
09 Jul 2010, 22:16
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Wolfe does make mistakes. And he can inadvertently reuse ideas. A famous instance that he noted himself is that his protagonist in "The Other Dead Man" and the villain in "An Evi…
09 Jul 2010, 21:58
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I actually got the insinuation. Subtle. Nice! "This ain't a democracy." But is today really the moment to call the cops? Perhaps a couple days ago, yeah. But today? On the other …
09 Jul 2010, 21:38
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The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. ~ Babylon 5…
09 Jul 2010, 21:23
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No. This does not explain why the first question made no sense or was beside the point. It only shows that you preferred another term. You could have opted to answer the question…
09 Jul 2010, 21:09
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Look. English is not your first language. I get that. But you are allowing your debility to make an ass of you. Also, didn't you just chide me for trimming messages for emphasis? …
09 Jul 2010, 21:06
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I mean that they they are *clearly*, almost to the point of self-evidence, intended by the author to signal something. Or as Roy put it today in the initial post of the "Monkey B…
09 Jul 2010, 20:01
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Read what? Still no citation? Tsk tsk. Five dodges now. Irrelevant question in this case. No speculated advantage. See what I did above? I used specific instances and showed how …
09 Jul 2010, 19:35
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Knowing that the flooding of Urth is "bad" would require knowledge of what happened to all those people who were transported to other planets in Master Ash's timeline. Also, what…
09 Jul 2010, 19:13
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I think should elaborate on this. Sure there were people who read tBotNS and said "Aha! Dorcas is Severian's grandmother." That Number Five's name could be derived from the text …
09 Jul 2010, 19:08
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I don't know how it could have passed your notice that this issue was debated on this list in detail in the late 90s. u+16b9…
09 Jul 2010, 18:47
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Bait the hook, then reel them in. You still haven't delineated the relevant differences between "Inire is Rudesind" and "Dorcas is Severian's grandmother". So this gives me a cha…
09 Jul 2010, 18:26
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Sure. But anyone...probably any living thing...could be an aquastor. Why would being an aquastor help things along? u+16b9…
09 Jul 2010, 17:35
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There are smilodons and giant sloths. I presume these are generally indistinguishable for the ancient extinct varieties. I really did assume when I first read this that we were t…
09 Jul 2010, 14:41
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Actually, I'm pretty sure you haven't. Cite the email where you did. And it won't count unless you use the words "Dorcas" and "grandmother". If you have, I can't understand why …
09 Jul 2010, 14:38
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The word "avacado" derives directly from the Aztec word for testicle and the fruit. Perhaps there are no avacados in the cooling Urth.…
08 Jul 2010, 16:12
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What would be worse? The threat of spontaneous combustion should be sufficient. u+169b…
08 Jul 2010, 15:09
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??? Here are the following threads you've responded to on this: Additionally, I've continued to pose the question on this thread. You didn't take the opportunity to explain how t…
08 Jul 2010, 12:30
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err...thank you? or I'm outraged! Please accept whichever response is most appropriate. ;-) u+16b9…
08 Jul 2010, 10:49
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For the record, I don't give a hoot about Rudesind and only a little bit about Fechin. Whatever Inire is, is fine with me. But what I don't like is cheap shots. And that is what …
08 Jul 2010, 04:46
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This is not really the course of the argument as I saw it. I can come up with an equally tendentious synopsis of the course of this argument from the other side. To a large exten…
07 Jul 2010, 22:45
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Oooh. I think I'm being pranked. I feel like an idiot. I'm hip now.…
07 Jul 2010, 22:12
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What's the subtext here? Why would taking the AUTHOR's reading as AUTHORitive make one a pagan? u+16b9…
07 Jul 2010, 22:09
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I think his point was "Inire is repeatedly compared to a monkey. This comes up several times with other characters. Are these flags that Inire is or has been in other guises. If …
07 Jul 2010, 21:54
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Okay. What's the speculative advantage to Dorcas being Severian's grandmother? I remember when the grandmother theory was posed. There was no more textual evidence for it than t…
07 Jul 2010, 21:42
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What's the narrative advantage of Dorcas being Severian's grandmother?…
07 Jul 2010, 21:13
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Or Rose!…
07 Jul 2010, 21:11
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This is the way Tolkien described it. See "The Letters of JRR Tolkien" Well, to the extent that 1) what I say is the way Tolkien described the creation of his world in very stra…
07 Jul 2010, 21:03
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I'll put it this way. Tolkien was interested in languages. He invented his own language in his 20s which he called a "Fairy language". But a true language must occur over time. I…
07 Jul 2010, 20:41
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Typhon: "Piaton was one of my slaves...." "Sword of the Lictor" chap 25 Typhon's daughter: "We slaves. Pas own." "Return to the Whorl" I'm just sayin'. It could happen. u+16b9…
07 Jul 2010, 20:34
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Only if they made the Time Machine themselves. But, look. If Rudesind and Inire were actually boys together, that means Rudesind is ALSO old enough to have been a councilor to al…
07 Jul 2010, 20:26
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Severian was there at the construction of Apu Punchau's temple. How old is he?…
07 Jul 2010, 20:12
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I'm a bit lost. Have we actually established WHEN Rudesind was a child? We're dealing with Time Travelers here. I think it is problematic that Rudesind is Inire. But is it imposs…
07 Jul 2010, 20:07
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I'm just sayin'. Imagine if Wolfe had written Superman. There's no way we'd know for certain Kent and Superman were the same guy. If Wolfe had written Murder On the Orient Expres…
07 Jul 2010, 19:49
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Superman is a Dick website: http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=28&Itemid=45…
07 Jul 2010, 19:40
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Why is that necessary? What if --as seems likely to me-- Severian drowned in the Gyoll at the beginning of SotT? That would mean that for almost every event in which Severian tak…
07 Jul 2010, 19:30
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What's your definition of "robot"? We do know he's artificial, right? u+16b9…
07 Jul 2010, 19:15
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Not "factitious". Facetious…
07 Jul 2010, 18:54
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I was being factitious in order to make a point. If Inire were also variously Rudesind and a monkey, it would affect the story if only that it would mean Inire might be a Hierogr…
07 Jul 2010, 18:49
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We call that a competing theory. u+16b9…
07 Jul 2010, 18:32
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Well....if there are reddish furry and monkey signifiers connected to Inire and lots of random human and non-human characters appearing with those signifiers, and Inire is never …
07 Jul 2010, 18:25
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Hmmm...would you say The Silmarillion was an unnecessary book? u+169b…
07 Jul 2010, 16:43
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Able's speculation qualifies as evidence, I think. And since Garsecg/Setr is Aelf in Aelfrice and a dragon in Muspel, it seems to me that you are rejecting the obvious. When Able…
04 Jul 2010, 03:11
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He's a figure. Everyone in the story is within his realm IIRC. I thought it was clear that Arnthor, his sister, and Garsecg/Setr were actually dragons in the lower world, Muspel.…
03 Jul 2010, 21:31
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The picture had become so dingy that Urth had become obscured in the picture. u+16b9…
02 Jul 2010, 19:55
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An illuminating reading. And since the amendment addresses "the right of the People", we get a deeper understanding of this text: "Congress shall make no law [snip] abridging…
02 Jul 2010, 17:51
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Yeah, but wonder, if he were asked, would Wolfe shed some light on that dancer with wings like leeches? u+16b9…
02 Jul 2010, 17:35
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And what would one say if Wolfe wrote a novel about a heroic CIA agent? Or a heroic FBI agent hunting the hippie minions of the Storm King? That he's a big Nanny Statist?…
02 Jul 2010, 17:06
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I did to. I even know exactly where I thought I'd seen it: It was in the book "We Came in Peace: The Story of Man in Space". I had that volume as a child. But googling for the i…
02 Jul 2010, 16:58
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